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Home , Barney McCosky, Chet Laabs, Don Gutteridge, Jim Tabor, Oscar Judd, Virgil Trucks

' Saturday, April 18, 1942 PAGE 12 EVENING TIMES (PHONE CHERRY 8800) Don't took Now, HANK AND MATES PICK DUGOUT GIRL Godfrey Boys Ex-Tigers Make Life Stretch Running for Old ¦ Tough Mates But the Yanks Win 2 Titles in (Continued from First Sport Page) Of Shut Out to Cullen bine’s three-bagger, how- Once again it was a walk that led ever. It would have been an ordi- to the . First up, Bob Harris nary single had not Barney Mc- walked, advanced to second on a Company Roller Racing Cosky slipped and fell, the ball sacrifice by Gutteridge, and later Be Derby Threat Have "IKi' rolling past him to the fence. scored on a timely bingle by Clift. ¦t TRUCKS UN STEADIED With a run in the fourth, the 3 Other Detroiter* Tigers broke into scoring. It was Devil Diver's Stablemate Little Brownies Keep Were it not for this twist In the Cramer who scored after slashing might ° Collect Championship*..- contest, Virgil Trucks have to center, Gets Better as Champs assignment a moving up a Pace With I won his first pitching base on Barney McCosky's infield in National Meet in the majors. As it was. the young out, and scoring after Cullenbine Race Goes On to Tie for Lead Buffalo recruit, unsteadied by the snared ’s long fly ball break, Was forced to leave the By MARGARET RUSSELL to left. game, and Charley Fuchs finished. Editor‘a sou: Following ia th» fiftfc YORK. April IS (INS).-. April 18 BROWNS EVEN IT dla patch In a atrlaa high-lighting th« NEW PHILADELPHIA. Chet Laabs, another former De- foremoat contenders for the *75 000 prta* Regarded as dark horses at the Yqu just can’t keep those racing of the stxty-elghth Kentucky Darby on troiter, bagged two singles and But the Browns retrieved the May S. start of the pennant races, the St Godfreys down. personally scored two of the tal- run in their half of the fourth. When the state speed meets Louis Browns today were living lies that spelled defeat for Del Beating out a grounder to Eric By CHARLES MOREY were held in Detroit recently, Dale boys. Harris, a designation with four boys’ Baker’s And Bob McNair in deep short, Laabs was l nlted freu Staff Correapoßdeot up to that collected the junior crown, St. Louis came through third ex-Tiger in the given life at first base. Then Glenn straight victories in the American while brother Jimmy pitched comparatively well also NEW YORK, April 18.—College In juvenile boys’ A. lineup, McQuillen, rookie outfielder, graduates around race tracks League, to be tied for the mo- for the better part of eight in- from Toledo, poked a harmless the ment with the world champion Right then and there the who, Trucks, did are few and far between, but don’t youngsters began gunning for the nings, but like grounder to Trucks, who wheeled . Hollingsworth, a high over be surprised if the trainer who nationals. They practiced every not finish. A 1 and hurled McNair's wins tne sixty-eighth Kentucky Only one other club besides the left-hander, finished after Johnny head at second trying for a double won all spare minute they could find and Derby on May 2 is a Princeton Yankees and Browns has Whitehead served briefly. play, Laabs checking at third and far, to one it has all paid dividends with in- man, no less. John Gaver, for five starts so and find that Jimmy Bloodworth and later scoring after McCosky’s you have to go over into the Na- terest. With years head man in the Greentree Today Dale and Jimmy are the , the boys from Wash- catch of a fly ball off Stephens’ Stable, will be shooting for the tional League, where the Boston attack, setting pace with- National Speed Skating champions ington, leading the the bat. 175,000 purse with a double- Brave* are the boys’ Tigers at bat, out- out a defeat. in junior B and juvenile disclosed power Bloodworth’s homer, driven 375 barreled gun—Devil Diver and Most disheartening angle to the boys’ A, respectively. hitting the Browns, 13 knocks to feet into the stands in right cen- Shut Out. showing supremacy in the Trucks career has been Browns' efforts to make a run OTHER VICTORIES 10, ami ter, came in the fifth with Devil Diver’s for it this time is the attendance strength of their blows. on base, accounting for two scores reviewed already in this series. And that wasn’t the end of good had Hi was the boy of the figures. In their home opener BLOODWORTH HOMERS and tying the count. Trucks glamour against yester- things for the Detroit speed en- singled with two out. Greentree string last year. But the tries in the National Roller Skat- roses are around day. the Brownies attracted only Bloodworth and Cramer each Then came the Browns’ big in- when the draped customers. ing championships, here in historic poled two hits—all four blows be- up, Gut- the Derby winner’s neck they may 4.900 Convention Hall. ning—the seventh. First go Diver's lesser known ing for extra bases. The former teridge singled and Clift sacrificed to the RALLY BEATS TIGERS Dorothy Law of Arena Gardens exploded a , his first in stablemate—one of the last sons national him to second. McQuinn walked. Despite the lack of patronage successfully defended her Tiger livery. On top of that he got Cullenbine sired by mighty Equipoise before junior girls’ title, while Betty Ross At this juncture he died so suddenly in 1938. the enduring doormats of the a two-bagger. Cramer posted a McCosky, of Madison Gardens became co- double. plunked his post league trimmed the Tigers, 7 to triple and a both Gutteridge and McQuinn GOES THURSDAY accomplishing the feat with a senior women’s champion with No, lack of power. 6. Dorothy V. Law of Cleveland. it wasn’t scoring and Roy pulling up at That son is Shut Out. Equipoise big four-run seventh inning. The MISS MARY ANN MERCER, radio defense bonds and stamps to the men in Just the breaks of the game. third, from where he later scored losing was Betty’s triumph is the result himself never got up to the Derby. big blow for the Tigers many Trucks got some bad breaks, but after the catch of a long fly ball a home run with one on by Jim singing star, was picked SGTT the camp. She was honored by the 3rd of years of competition and He was scratched on the eve of bj| grim endeavor. She had never made most of them himself. His by Laabs. the race in 1931. Shut Out at Bloodworth. the bond wildness paved the way for a and the other Mapping Squadron that won won a national race until she col- TIGERS BACK least will be given his chance to The Yankees scored their second 880-yard couple of St. Louis tallies and run. now at Keeneland, year lected the senior women’s Stabled of the to keep pace soldier-baseball players at MacDill Field buying honors by beating the other event Thursday night. And then committed t|ie only Tiger , a But the Tigers refused to curl where he will take his final prep with the Browns, the victims this costly wild peg to second base MacDill Field in Florida. last night she put on top of that up. They hit back with three runs in the Blue Grass Stakes next time being the , as the Dugout Girl. She sold $27,000 outfits at with an easy in sight. a little enter was big Ernie a first in the mile to share the in the eighth and with Thursday, he will Matt 1 to 0. The Hurler crown. Trucks was on the hill six and luck—or finesse —might well have Winn's turf clambake coupled Bonham, who turned in a six-hit- innings, In all speed contests the big two-thirds during which won the old ball game. Bloodworth with Devil Diver. I ter to take the decision over senior men’s time he yielded eight hits and At the moment no Judd, 10,000 See Robinson event of competition led off with his two-bagger and other stable Oscar a 32-year-old rookie. course seven runs. He struck out six men, to enter two aces • is of the gruelling flve- shortly is certain fanned seven and got Roller Derby; scored after when Cramer in Bonham miler. At least 20 always start, whiffing Cullenbine twice before this one race. And don't think the fourth tripled to right center, 9 triple the winning margin in with a fourth of that number fin- the former Tiger uncorked his Whitehead that Shut Out will be sent along when Tommy Henrich opened that was a real triple. K. O. Dubs in Sixth ishing. The winner, whether he triple. He also struck out Harland was rushed to the box and walked to keep his mate company. with a single, Jim Tabor threw be the national champion or not, Clift, Don Gutteridge and George is 1941 record wasn’t quite as DiMaggio’s grounder away and Tonight (Continued from First Sport Page) McCosky. When York singled. est Renews is always considered the best McQuinn. brilliant as that of Devil Diver’s Cramer scored. Then Higgins sin- Charley Keller singled past first. plenty of experience to gain, and the fourth round as Robinson skater in the meet. but to the student of bloodlines he That settled everything before PITCHING DUEL gled. scoring McCoskey. That was Detroit’s newest sport, the fight probably did him more slackened his terrific pace. But finish, Hollingsworth is a colt who should run faster as slightly more than 30,000 cus- the LINDBERGH THIS TIME For five innings Trucks and Whitehead’s runs Roller Derby, will re-open tonight there was little slackening in the taking over. he farther. That is important. tomers. good than harm. To Harry Lindbergh, Michigan Harris engaged in a pretty duel Greentree and Gaver will have at Olympia, to complete the final he Mind you. there were two run- SHUTOUT ROUND OF SPARRING punishment was giving the state speed champion, goes the in which honors were about even. a speed horse in Devil Diver and LYONS WINS nine-game series. Tonight’s match ners on the paths, no one out, and local boy. honor in this fifth annual tourna- The Browns scored in the second counter a router in Shut Out. Never quick buried the Chicago will start at 8:30. That didn’t seem to be the case Harry the Tigers needing but one starting An in the fifth round Ray ment. started off in the inning when with one out Laabs to to leave the gate, the White Sox to a 1 to 0 victory Chicago is trailing Detroit’s at the start fight, however, tie and two to take the lead latter youngster really of the stepped up again. pushed, last place, but within a half mile walked and later came home on a turned on over the in a team by five points in the stand- it He had worked himself up to the single with what would probably have the in as Robinson revealed very little. by Vernon Stephens, a re- winning heat the final stages of his mound duel with Mel Harder and ings. With two days* rest, when rather than punched. Dubs through lead, which he never let go. Al- up Toledo, been the run. juvenile races. He gave Saratoga Lyons hockey fights forced Derby The first round was little more cruit from who has Ned Harris twice tried to bunt. Harry Eisenstat. allowed and the the ropes, and Harvey wisely fred Walkley of Arcadia finished shown brilliantly thus far and is a fans a sample of his stretch drive arven while the Sox were get- to give way. both squads are in a get-acquainted period. When he fouled. Harris was yanked hits than waited for the count of nine before second to Lindbergh in one of the hero with fans here. when he came from behind to de- ting only six. but won the game top shape to renew their hair- Lulled into a sense of false se- closest five-milers in national his- and Don Ross went in to bat with feat Requested by three lengths getting to his feet. The second To this marker the Browns In the second when Hoag doubled pulling. rough tactics. curity, perhaps, Dubs forgot his tory. added another in the third heat. Harris’ two strikes on him. Don in the Grand Union Stakes. and was singled home by Lodi- caution momentarily at the start nine-count he took that round was Dolores Molla did her bit for hit into a double play. McNair In all, he ran nine races and giani. town by collecting sec- sent a weak grounder to Clift and three won. * of the second round. And his rush- fully warranted, however, as Rob- the home times he In his only Philadelphia Athletics the Tigers were retired, their glo- The Minor Leagues ing tactics worked as he drove inson connected once more with ond in juvenile girls’ A speed start this reason he finished second •cored their first victory. 5 to 4. dusky the Nothing more than a second College Baseball rious scoring chances gone with behind Valdina Alpha at his opponent against his powerful Tight. six fur- in 10 innings and handed the Wash- ropes and pummeled him. could come Detroit’s way in any of the wind or out of the window. longs. their fourth AMERICAN ASSOCIATION It was apparent start events ington Senators As calculating a fighter at the of the other of the third day Michigan f, Virginia 9. » straight W I, Pci. W L Pot. cool and Michigan defeat Bob Johnson 1 the sixth that Dubs wouldn’t of the meet. Margaret Williams Ohio Stata 8. State 2. Mlnnetp'a 3 0 1 000 Louisville 1 .500 as ever pulled on a glove, Robin- last Army 19, knotted the count in the ninth 0 of the Detroit Figure Skating Harvard 9. Columbus 3 0 1 000 St. Paul 1 .000 son just waited his opportunity. it out. No one could stand up Maryland 9. Waat Virginia 2. With a homer and Bill Knicker- Mtlws'kee 1 o l 000 Ind’spoll* o 3 000 Club finished second in junior 7, Lafayette .000 bell rang he had Dartmouth 2. bocker won the game in the tenth Toledo 1 I .500 Kan. City 0 3 Before the under the beating he was receiv- figure skating to Donnajean Pann Stata 19, Gettysburg 12. VKNTKRDAVN RKMCI.TN times, and the ing girls* Colgate 11. Lock Haven ft. * floored Dubs three but it wasn’t until with another circuit smash. - 0 . almost the Popisil of Cleveland. Brooklyn Columbua 030 001 200 I I only question in the minds of the close that Robinson S, Manhattan 2 The Braves stayed in front in Indlanapolie 000 no 111 —6 IS 2 connected with Henry De Frain and Orletta Mlseourl 1, Kansas State 0. (9) Heath; Oil) was number of rounds it «. The by scoring Hunger. Ro# and Rich, fans the the payoff right. He was plung- Zimmerman finished fourth in Purdue Illinois 2. (S) and Harlnett. would take him to finish it. ing in for Northwestern 21. Chicago 9 fourth victory in a row. the 3 2 the kill when McClel- senior skate dance in an elimina- University Wyoming 5 their Toledo 100 000 200- A stopped Denver 11. victims being the New York Loulaville 200 010 001—4 10 4 LEFTS AND A RIGHT land it. tion of 30 couples. Oreeley Stata ft, Colorado Mines 2 Giants and the score being 4 to 3 Marrum and Rplndel; Ha vie* and Walter* at. Paul 000 000 40i—s lo i The Harlem Hurricane has a in a wild game which saw three Milwaukee 200 000 23a—« « 2 Herring Andrews; Page, Naktrnla tricky leading 0 Giants. Mel Ott, Hal and habit of with his $ isl Oeorge. MacArthur’s (7), Lsnfrancont (9) and L. then hooking it before the Bill Jurges, ban- Minneapolis left and Schumacher and 000 000 311—ft 11 1 completed. ished from the game by Kansas City 101 100 000- 3 9 3 motion is It was this Mungo, befebvrs (4). Scheets (9) and blow that floored Dubs the first Ziggy Sears. (7) c.iuliant, Johnson, Hendrickson and two times, Bears. once for a count of JOHNNY ALLEN WINS five, then of four. Feinting with Problem TODAY’S GAMKB Toledo at Louisville. left, Robinson threw a right B The Brooklyn Dodgers beat the his WASTE IS ’42 Bt. Paul at Milwaukee IN sent Dubs to the canvas for TABOO , 7 to 1, on Minneapolis at Kansas City. that Indianapolis. and eight-count near the end of the pitching and hitting of Johnny Columbus at \ . Allen, who hurled a shutout until that stanza. With on back-pedal. the ninth and drove in two runs W L Pet W L Pet. Dubs the with three singles. Jer. City 2 0 1.000 Newark 1 1 .ftOO Robinson again counted with that Johnny Vander • Meer allowed Rochester 2 0 1 000 Toronto 0 1 .000 right at the outset of the third Syracuse 1 o l 000 Montreal 0 2 .000 round, Lines only five hits but went down with Buffalo 1 1 500 Baltimore 0 2 .000 and McClelland again Eventual got the , 3 to 2, YKMTKBUAY'W RKMt I.TS counted eight before Dubs up. against the , who Buffalo 010 000 000— 1 9 1 Robinson himself went down for Counter - Newark 100 003 10a 5 11 1 count just bell, won the game with two runs in Pulllg. Thomas (7) and Oarbark; Byrne a two before the In peace time, waste is serious. In war time, it is inexcusable. of Pacific , it by s the seventh. k and Padden. but was caused more his downed Montreal Olf) 000 000 1 2 1 anxiety to end the fight than by Drive The Jtreey City 200 000 02x ~4 10 3 the St. Louis Cardinals, 3 to 2, Bherer and Howell; Wlttig and Poland the Windsor boy’s punch. non 202- 10 15 1 If a business firm buys space one time, worthless, fly-by-night On triples in the third inning by Rochester 204 Wildly throwing a left hook, in Baltimore 000 100 00a— ft S 0 threw Elliott and Stewart. fturkonl. Docktns <9* and Narron; Flan- Robinson himself way off igan. Trtnkla (ft), NtUar (ft), Rocha (ft) balance, and the feeble left thrown publications, that’s waste. and Becker by Toronto at Syracuse, postponed, weather. Dubs upset him more than It TODAY’H 4JAMKB kocked him down. The Detroit Bearded Russian Buffalo at Newark. born Negro was on his feet al- If wage earners put money in fake investment or merchandise Montreal at Jersey City. most immediately, and his margin A PAGE COLOR Rochester at Baltimore. r Toronto at Syracuse. over Dubs w as just as great as schemes, that’s waste. To Make Mat Debut it was in the second. ‘ '•*' • e SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION There were no knockdowns In A Ivan KalmikofT. bearded Rus- lESTKRDAY’H RMH.TM sian grappler. will make his De- Chattanooga 9. Atlanta 1 anyone buys tickets to fraudulent but New Orleans 4, Memphis I. If makes donations or troit debut at the Arena Gardens Little Rock 4. Birmingham 3 Monday night when he meets Knoxville ft, Nashville ft (called at end Tiger cleverly commercialized “patriotic” or “charitable” affairs, that’s Jack Smith of Toronto on the of aevanth). Box Score card featuring a double windup waste. In which Vic Christy meets Lee DETROIT WAR h Henning and Earl McCready Tiger Pitching Records ar r ro a r. 'y - Blood worth 2h S 2 2 4 4 0 wrestles Roland Kirrhmeyer. Cramer, cf K 2 2 ft 0 0 Henning-Christy bout Is a McCoaky. if a 1 1 a A 0! Such waste can be avoided by observing the Bureau’s slogan, The * OWL IP HO BB Pet 'York, lb 4 ft 2 S 2' fll , return match. In his first Detroit 9 .(Km) Bridge* 110 4 3 1 Hlgflna. 1b 402120 business concerns and con- * Invest—lnvestigate”—and appearance nearly weeks ago, Trout 1 1 0 9 4 2 4 0 0 0 “Before You two 1.000 N. Harri*. rs 0 2 ? • Christy won over the house with Hen*haw 1 0 0 2 1 o .000 Ro*a. rs O 0 0 0 0 ft Fucha 1 o o I'i ft 1 000 McNair.'*# 4 o o 2 0 0; sumers are invited and urged to call the Bureau for facts before performance against the rough Benton I o l 7 11 .000 Par#<'n», c 0 7 0 0 alike .his ft*, ft 4 4 1 blond. He won the only fall of a Truck* 1 o l .000 Truck*. p 3 1 1 1 a 1 Kuch#. p 0 0 0 0 o (V parting money on any proposition. MAT brawl stopped by the time limit. Total 4 2 2 35 1« 10 .500 with their unknown •Tcbhett* 10 10 0 0 f Hitchcock 0 o o n fl 0 oj Tn)*l* .17 ft 12 24 9 1 ? ? Lewis H. Walter *t. i.nris the A R R H ro \ »' 1 * r Off Hook .*> history, Out lurid**. 2b 4 1 1 Y 0] Greatest war arena in Clift. Sb *lO 10 10 TORONTO. Ont., April 18.— Jack Adams brought Bob Mur- .Mrgmnn, eliminated all the way down the line for the lb 4 1 1 12 0 fl Waste should he the Pacific Ocean’s vast phy** man, Eddie (Bee Be<* Eye*) Bush to Toronto with the Red loullcnblnr, If SI 1 5 0 fl] Wings even though he has benched the defenseman in favor of jl.ftnh*. rs 1 2 2 2 0 0 M<'Qulllrn rs 4 1110 0 of all hinds—can be reaches offer limitless counter- . . . duration. electrical appliances—-articles Young Doug McCaig several Red Wing supporters are go- Ptephcri* ## 4 0 2 2 2 0 Tires, ring to try and help Adams manage the Detroit team- argue him ' Kcrrcll, r 10 0 110 offense possibilities for the R. Harri*. p 2 1 0 0 2 0 into putting Bush back in uniform tonight . . . they believe {Whitehead p 0 0 ' n n o o made to serve better and last longer through proper care. to de- Bush is a far more potent offensive threat and bogged down llolllnMrrorth p 1 0 1 0 fl 0 United Nations to use defensively only in the fifth game up here Tutiila 31 7 10 2T 13 0 The page color Andy Lytle, the Toronto writer who really bears down with feat Japan. says subbing McCaig •Pulled for Tuch* in ninth. dfefrstitetto for Bush api*»ars to be noth- ’Ran for Trhbrlt* in ninth ,| map indicates them. . . ing but a lead from fright . hut we haven't seen Adams DETROIT OOfl 120 OKI -ft

any . . may St. Louia Oil lOA 40*-7 hacking away from one yet . and McCaig prove wrong Run* halted in Stephen# 2. Clift. Cut- THK the doubters tonight . . . wr hope. enhin* 2. I.aah#. Y«rk 2, Blood worth 2 This Sunday in PICTORIAL REVIEW with There are rrtfcny moans from Toronto because Syl Apps framer H Two-ha** hit# —Cramer didn't get . credit the first—and most important *Toronto goal Hi**in* Bloodwnrth. Thr*e-ha»e flit* rullenbtn* Cramer. Mom* nm Blondworth at Detroit Thursday night . . . the scorer ruled against it lie- H'-.im ta*e M'tjulilrn Sarrtflraa -Outt*- Better Business Bureau cause Apps did not pass directly to Metz. The puck reached rldge Cim. Double play*- Stephen* to as Wares riutterfdfce to McQulnn: Clift to Outterldg* Met* a result of putting his stick it ... seems in it to Mciyuinn. on ba«*a Detroit S; OF DETROIT, INC.

scoring . . technical but that is the official rule . however, since st V Baa* on hall* -Off Truck* 4. Sunday Toronto people feel Apps was victimized because he wa* trying {oft R Harri* 1. off Fucha 1. Strurk out 932 National Bank Building Randolph 7564 to overtake Grosso for the scoring lead, this hopes By Truck* ft. by R Harri* 2. Hit#- Oft deftartment • ¦ ft in fts Innln**; off Furh*. 2 m he is granted the . . . Apps deserves it. I 1 * tnnln**, off R. Harri*. * In T Inning* The Red Wings are trying to build up their hockey ranks (non* out in eighth*, Whitehead, 2 In 0 inning* < pitched to two hatter* >; Helling* for next season by signing all the good looking juniors who can iworth, 1 In 2 inning* Wild pitcbe* -

. Winning their marks on contracts . . next years’ National Hockey Truck* -R. Harri* 1/wlng put pitohar Truck* TIVIKS League ciubs will be made up of kids and veteran timers who Umpire* vjjtnn Ba»U old and PtewarW Tim# of g*/n# 2 It. AMcnd- ere needed at home to support their families. .aoc* i Mft fpaid).